We’ve recently moved over to using Mercurial for our source code version control. It has the advantage over subversion of being a distributed version control system. This of course fits in nicely with the democratic aims of openaustralia.
We’ve also added a bug tracking database, Trac. For more information visit http://trac-hg.assembla.com/openaustralia
Like theyworkforyou.com we are going to do all our software development out in the open including open sourcing any and all bits of code to do with this project. The people who set up the truly excellent UK theyworkforyou set an excellent example by open sourcing the code that ran their site. We are planning to use this code as a starting point for our own Australian version.Our code, in its current infantile state, can be checked out from our subversion repository:
svn co https://twfy-australia.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/twfy-australia twfy-australia
We also have a mailing list for discussions about what we’re doing both technical and non-technical in nature. If you’re interested, please do sign up or read through the archives.To see all the commits to the code as they happen sign up to the commits email list.
All I’ve done so far is take the website code from the UK website theyworkforyou.com as is and write a very crude parser for the Australian Hansard which takes that data and rejigs into an XML format that can be imported into the website database.There are a huge number of problems and I have committed a large number of unspeakable hacky sins to get here but it’s progress!
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